Sentences with phrase «reclaiming land and building»

Jervoise Bay preparations involve dredging channels, reclaiming land and building breakwaters akin to those at neighbouring Henderson.

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To describe strip mines as environmentally devastating reflects a way of thinking that logically requires one to regard the building of dykes and reclaiming of land in Holland as one of the greatest environmental crimes of all time.
The new area is being built on reclaimed land and will house some of the most expensive real estate in the world, which would add to the feel of glamour and glitz that surrounds the jewel on the F1 calendar.
When you produce 97 % of your own food, compost all manure (human and animal), make your own clothing, shoes, diapers, wraps, menstrual pads, washable toilet paper, soaps, lanolin, and herbal tinctures, and grow your animals feed, make your house out of a recycled tobacco barn with reclaimed building materials, have no electricity (even solar panels / wind generators leave a huge footprint from manufacture), water coming from your spring / creek, home school your children without fancy curriculum, make your living from your land and being a home birth midwife, etc... then you will see what real life could be.
The city, built on reclaimed land, was founded in 1967 and was named after Cornelis Lely, who engineered the Afsluitdijk, making the reclaiming possible.
Benoa Harbour is on the northern side of the bay — a square of docks and port buildings on reclaimed land.
Fortunately, the government mandates the creation of green space for every big development, and that's evident with Gardens by the Bay, the 101 - hectare botanical gardens built on waterfront reclaimed land, which opened earlier this year.
The severe impacts of mountaintop removal show the urgent need to end this practice as well as to begin building towards reclaiming the land and water for a healthier future.
Built on reclaimed waterfront land, the 101 - hectacre gardens comprise three separate landscapes and includes two massive (but energy - efficient) biomes designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects that contain tens of thousands of Mediterranean and tropical plants.
Let kinder Morgan build the pipeline, sell the oil, and we will reclaim the land, when the oil is gone.
«We are in a unique situation since we have built on reclaimed land and I expect there will be interest from Canadians who will see this as an opportunity to invest in a very special property,» says Oliver Gobat, sales director at The Landings.
The Queens Chain regulation that states all land within 20 m on the shoreline is owned by the government and can only be leased, but since The Landings is built on reclaimed land the rule does not apply.
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